For weeks public health and state officials have warned that Central and Southern California hospitals are quickly running out of intensive care unit beds for coronavirus patients ahead of a presumed post-holiday surge. But what exactly does it mean to be at 0% ICU capacity? San Joaquin County's seven hospitals have 99 licensed ICU beds, … Continue reading Central California has been at 0% ICU capacity for weeks. Here’s what that means →

COVID-19 has killed more people in San Joaquin County since March than the flu has over the past 10 years combined. More than 700 San Joaquin County residents have died from the coronavirus since the pandemic began, while county public health data show the flu killed just under 100 people from 2010 to 2020. It's … Continue reading San Joaquin County COVID-19 deaths far surpass those caused by the flu over past 10 years →

Stockton Shelter for the Homeless opened a winter shelter for single women this past week. The new low-barrier accommodations is the first of its kind in Stockton. The shelter has long offered low-barrier beds to men, meaning they don't have to pass a drug test to check in for the night, as well as separate … Continue reading Low-barrier, winter homeless shelter for single women now open in Stockton →

Elected officials joined a news conference Thursday afternoon to show support for local salons and other businesses that have been shuttered by state lockdown orders. San Joaquin County Supervisor Tom Patti and state Assemblyman Carlos Villapudua joined Pomp Salon co-owner Dino Ballin and Fred Jones of the Professional Beauty Federation of California at Ballin's salon located in Lincoln Center in north Stockton.  … Continue reading Villapudua, Patti show support for SJ County salons closed amid COVID-19 lockdown orders →

Hundreds of wildfires ignited across California in the past two weeks have collectively burned an area larger than the state of Delaware and forced tens of thousands of residents to evacuate their homes. The California Department of Forestry and Fire protection (Cal Fire) reported Wednesday that thousands of lighting strikes since Aug. 15 are responsible … Continue reading How much of California has been scorched by latest wildfires? An area larger than Delaware →

About a half-dozen large blue shipping containers sit arranged in a square behind a chain-link fence on the corner of L and 19th streets in Sacramento. Stacks of wooden barrels perch on top of one container, while another houses brewing equipment. Tables and strings of lights stretch across a courtyard still under construction. Golden Road … Continue reading Anheuser-Busch wants in on Sacramento’s booming craft beer scene →

Stockton’s new city manager Harry E. Black has a career marked by both successes and controversy. Black’s appointment was unanimously approved by the Stockton City Council Tuesday night after being chosen from a pool of four finalists. He will officially start his new job with the city in February. Before coming to Stockton, Black served … Continue reading Success, controversy follow new Stockton city manager →

Days after proposing Stockton Unified bring in a consulting firm owned by a controversial former superintendent to help replace John Deasy, board President Kathy Garcia voted to delay the proposal Tuesday night at a contentious Board of Education meeting. The meeting went late into the night and devolved into accusations of political and personal bias, … Continue reading Stockton Unified board delays decision on McLaughlin’s firm at contentious meeting →

A Stockton police officer who shot a man to death nearly four years ago was involved in another shooting this week that left a homicide suspect dead. David Wells, a Field Operations Division officer who was hired in 2003, was one of three officers involved in the shooting Wednesday afternoon near a Walmart in north … Continue reading Homicide suspect shot, killed by police identified →

Video footage was released Wednesday of an officer-involved shooting last month that left a 39-year-old man dead at an apartment complex in north Stockton. Stockton police say Antwane Burrise, who was wanted in connection with a murder in June, accelerated backward into the path of an undercover officer after being surrounded in a carport in … Continue reading Stockton police release video of officer-involved shooting →